[hook – mercedes martinez] i, i, i can’t help it, i, i, i can’t help it i can’t help it, i can’t help it i can’t help it, i can’t help it i, i, i can’t help it, i, i, i can’t help it i can’t help it, i can’t help it i can’t help it, i can’t help it

[verse 1 – malik b] live with it, that’s how i survive with it talk jive with it, you take a dive with it connive with it, depart and arrive with it harsh thrive, that’s why it’s part i with it i did it, make rhymes in five minutes mind of a dentist, crimes of a menace press rewind, see what you find in my image take you n-gg-s back to the line of the scrimmage ‘riq, you know we pull a freak with the flow talk’s cheap, that’s why we speak with the dough i’ll technique show i’m sleek with the flow it’s cold outside, n-gg-, sleep with the snow i tweek in the low tone, freak with the ozone i can’t help hiding my secrets that’s so known i only do what i got to ’cause it’s possible and climbin’ over whatever’s known as an obstacle

[hook – mercedes martinez] i, i, i can’t help it, i, i, i can’t help it i can’t help it, i can’t help it i can’t help it, i can’t help it i, i, i can’t help it, i, i, i can’t help it i can’t help it, i can’t help it i can’t help it, i can’t help it

[verse 2 – black thought] ugh, i can’t help it, maybe i’m selfish maybe the way i’m runnin’ is becomin’ a health risk all i can see is smoke through tortoise sh-ll gazelle 650’s, i’m feelin’ like i’m makin’ a sales pitch my head already so heavy, it’s makin’ the scales tip i got my own pressure and got everyone else’s i’m rehabilitated, still feelin’ rebellious candidate of heart failure, more pills then elvis in a layer cake, half-chocolate, half-velvet i’m listenin’ to some howe melvin i got too many options, there’s so many toxins yo, ain’t no really tellin’ what we killin’ ourselves with i lit a cigarette and inhaled it i’m thinkin’ of some rhymes more iller then a threatening ailment i’m on some bomb threat in the mail sh-t because of all the things i dealt with, n-gg-, i can’t help it

[hook – mercedes martinez] i, i, i can’t help it, i, i, i can’t help it i can’t help it, i can’t help it i can’t help it, i can’t help it i, i, i can’t help it, i, i, i can’t help it i can’t help it, i can’t help it i can’t help it, i can’t help it

[verse 3 – p-rn] i never said i’m ready to die, but i accept it never said i’m ready for war, but i’m protected i don’t even know when it’s comin’, but i expect it lost all semblance of hope, so now i’m left with nervous conditions, addictions, in addition to vixens that mixed in with the wrong crowd my life is on a flight that’s goin’ down my mother had an abortion for the wrong child with the time i felt love, that’s gone now been replaced by purple rains and some storm clouds misery love misery so why make friends? let’s make some enemies and now i got a habit that wasn’t meant for me now i’m in a marriage that wasn’t meant to be one more reason to change ident-ty the cars, the crime, k’s, penalties

[hook – mercedes martinez] i, i, i can’t help it, i, i, i can’t help it i can’t help it, i can’t help it i can’t help it, i can’t help it i, i, i can’t help it, i, i, i can’t help it i can’t help it, i can’t help it i can’t help it, i can’t help it